1951·Drama·1h 33m
7.1
★
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Directed by Stuart Heisler
ku klux klan
film noir
murder
reporter
witness to murder
witness intimidation
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Cast
Ginger Rogers
Marsha Mitchell
Ronald Reagan
Burt Rainey
Doris Day
Lucy Rice
Steve Cochran
Hank Rice
Hugh Sanders
Charlie Barr
Lloyd Gough
Cliff Rummel
Raymond Greenleaf
Faulkner
Ned Glass
George Athens
Paul E. Burns
Frank Hauser
Walter Baldwin
Coroner Bledsoe
Stuart Randall
Walt Walters
Sean McClory
Shore
Crew
Stuart Heisler
Director
Richard Brooks
Writer
Jerry Wald
Producer
Popular Reviews
5 reviews
kale
6.0★ · 06/16/25
ronald reagan being the good guy is the most unrealistic part of the the whole movie
ronald reagan being the good guy is the most unrealistic part of the the whole movie
Jasmine
8.0★ · 04/13/25
Horrifying, also quite funny that Ronald Reagan was fighting against the KKK
Horrifying, also quite funny that Ronald Reagan was fighting against the KKK
Evan
6.9★ · 02/01/22
I’m still really new to Old Hollywood stuff and still sort of have that mindset of “oh I’ve seen one so I’ve seen them all” so if you told me there was a movie about taking down the KKK (without mentioning their racism, etc), with Ronald Reagan in a leading role I wouldn’t have believed you. This movie is intense and gets even more so in the third act, and is just a very well done movie. I’m glad I watched it and I recommend it, not necessarily as a movie about the KKK, since there isn’t much, but more for the performances that are really good as well.
I’m still really new to Old Hollywood stuff and still sort of have that mindset of “oh I’ve seen one so I’ve seen them all” so if you told me there was a movie about taking down the KKK (without mentioning their racism, etc), with Ronald Reagan in a leading role I wouldn’t have believed you. This movie is intense and gets even more so in the third act, and is just a very well done movie. I’m glad I watched it and I recommend it, not necessarily as a movie about the KKK, since there isn’t much, but more for the performances that are really good as well.
Sebastian Tauriello
7.0★ · 04/01/25
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7.0★ · 01/13/24